To commemorate Juneteenth, Morning Show host Jill Riley invited Dr. Keith Mayes, a professor in the department of African-American and African studies, to have a conversation…
This interview at LitHub on the Podcast Fiction/Non/Fiction features Associate Professor Terrion Williamson of African American & African Studies and Assistant Professor V. V…
"Minnesota was known to be a white progressive state, but that doesn't mean that racism was absent from the state," says Keith Mayes, a professor in the department of African…
Nearly ten years before the killing of George Floyd, officers from the Minneapolis Police Department were responsible for suffocating another Black man to death. This is his…
One ran from a barreling semi-truck; another got tear-gassed by police. Professor of African American & African Studies Terrion Williamson is quoted in this article by The…
Though blacks make up only one in five residents in Minneapolis, they account for more than 60 percent of use of force cases. Professor Keith Mayes of the Department of…
'Clearly what we did wasn't enough,' says Janee Harteau of efforts to improve relations. Professor Keith Mayes of the Department of African American & African Studies is…
Ian Hanomansing talks to Keith Mayes, a professor at the department of African American and African studies at the University of Minnesota, about race relations in the…